Saturday, October 27, 2007

New "peace" radio to launch October 27

Excerpt from report by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna website

Khartoum, 25 October: The National Council for Radio and Television will launch an experimental broadcast of Salam [peace] Radio for the first time on Saturday [27 October]. The radio will be available on FM and 312 [metres medium wave] to cover all parts of the country and spread the culture of peace and remove remnants of war.

This was announced by the general manager of the National Council for Radio and Television, Dr Amin Hasan Umar, in a press conference today on this occasion.

Dr Amin said Salam Radio will be a first of it kind for the community to participate in building a suitable society that will reflect all the cultures of peace to achieve and support in solving communal problems. [Passage omitted]

(Source: Suna news agency website, Khartoum, in Arabic 25 Oct 07 via BBC Monitoring/Radio Netherlands Media Network Weblog)